GSA awards 3 Virtual Data Center contracts

With data center closings and consolidations slated to begin next year, the General Services Administration last week awarded a trio of contracts to provide agencies with ADP outsourcing options.

Computer Sciences Corp. and two teams-Unisys Corp. and Affiliated Computer Services of Dallas, along with GTE Corp. and SunGard Data Systems Inc. of Philadelphia-each won multiyear contracts to offer data center services to agencies on a task-order basis.

These indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts are designed to help agencies meet the White House mandate to cut the number of government data centers in half-to about 100-by June 1998.